Top 40 Songs
- https://playback.fm/charts/top-100-songs/1980
Top 40 Songs of the 1980s, starting with 1980.
Famous Musical Artists of the Time
- Bruce Springsteen
Like Elvis Presley in the 1950s, Springsteen embodied rock and roll in the American culture of the 1980s. His 1984 release, "Born in the U.S.A.", was a rock landmark. A reviewer for Billboard described Springsteen as "a veteran who has successfully juggled the roles of rock star, pop icon, folk hero, social activist, and everyman. As devoted as his fans are to him, the 'Boss' is just as committed to them, keeping their wishes uppermost in mind at every step in his illustrious career." - Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson was a distinctive vocalist, an imaginative and original songwriter with a gift for turning his own experiences into moving lyrics, and a skilled dancer almost without peer. Keeping control over his own career, he ruled pop and rhythm-and-blues music charts throughout the 1980s. - Madonna
When Madonna's self-titled album debuted in 1983; cuts from Madonna slowly became underground dance club hits. When the first single, "Holiday," got extensive airplay, many listeners were surprised to find that the voice belonged to a white woman. Stardom quickly followed when the singles "Borderline" and "Lucky Star" began climbing the charts. By early 1985, Madonna had become a household name. - New Kids on the Block
The late 80s pop music charts were absolutely dominated by a young group from Boston, Massachusetts, the New Kids on the Block. The New Kids-topped the 1989 Billboard list for sales of both albums and singles and became the first group since 1984 to have two songs in the top ten simultaneously. Teenage fans thrilled to the New Kids' sound, a well-produced pastiche of funky, obliquely sexual street music, and young girls in particular adored the clean-looking, attractive singers.
Random Fact Generator
Random 1980s History Fact
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Gauthier, Jason. “1980 Fast Facts - History - U.S. Census Bureau.” Census.gov, 2018, www.census.gov/history/www/through_the_decades/fast_facts/1980_fast_facts.html. Accessed 54 Mar. 2024.
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Books
And the Band Played On by ISBN: 9780140113693A report on the misinformation and inaction that has surrounded the fight against AIDS in this country.
Morning in America by ISBN: 0691096457Publication Date: 2005-02-13Did America's fortieth president lead a conservative counterrevolution that left liberalism gasping for air? The answer, for both his admirers and his detractors, is often "yes." In Morning in America, Gil Troy argues that the Great Communicator was also the Great Conciliator. His pioneering and lively reassessment of Ronald Reagan's legacy takes us through the 1980s in ten year-by-year chapters, integrating the story of the Reagan presidency with stories of the decade's cultural icons and watershed moments-from personalities to popular television shows. Many sixties' innovations went mainstream, from civil rights to feminism. Reagan fostered a political culture centered on individualism and consumption-finding common ground between the right and the left.
Freedom at Risk by ISBN: 0877225435The Reagan Administration's belief that individual liberties are secondary to the requirements of national security has led to a massive assault on civil liberties. This book discusses the many ways in which the Reagan Administration has made radical departures with the past in its zealous enforcement of secrecy, censorship, and repression.Post to Neo: The Art World of the 1980s by
ISBN: 9780140120912Emerging from New York's East Village art scene of the 1980s, the so-called neo-geo artists were a loosely associated group that included the painters Ashley Bickerton, Peter Halley, Sherrie Levine, Allan McCollum, Philip Taaffe, and Meyer Vaisman and the sculptors Jeff Koons and Haim Steinbach. Labeled neo-geo for the abstract geometric motifs that characterized only some of their work, the movement was also known variously as simulationism, neoconceptualism, neo-pop, neominimalism, and postabstraction.
